Prior to the current wave of filming interest, one Hollywood production managed to film in Cuba as early as 2014 – the first to do so since the Castro-led revolution of 1959. The team filming Papa, an independent biopic on the American writer Ernest Hemingway, was able to obtain a license from the Treasury Department to film on the island from April to May 2014.

Cuba is also home to nine UNESCO World Heritage sites. These include: Cultural – Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba – Historic Centre of Camagüey – Old Havana and its Fortifications – San Pedro de la Roca Castle – Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios – Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos – Viñales Valley – NATURE – Alejando de Humboldt National Park – Desembarco del Granma National Park – TENTATIVE LIST – National Schools of Art – Ciénaga de Zapata National Park – Reef System in the Cuban Caribbean.

Here are some images from the sets of Furious 8:

Diesel on the set of Fast and Furious 8 in Havana. Image by Cuba Journal

From the Havana set of Fast & Furious 8. Image by Cuba Journal

Fast and Furious 8 in Havana. Image by Cuba Journal.

Filming in Cuba: Images from Universal’s Fast 8 was last modified: August 12th, 2016 by Cuba Journal